bardyn.
/ˈbɑːdi/, U.S. /ˈbɑrdi/, Australian English /ˈbʌːdi/ Australian.
An edible Australian wood-boring grub ( Bardistus cibarius) or its larvæ. Used locally in starve the bardies!, an exclamatory phrase of surprise or disgust.
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cabbage-tree worm1796
witchetty1891
bardy1926
1926 R. J. Tillyard Insects Austral. & N.Z. xx. 233 Coleoptera..The ‘bardee’ of Western Australia, Bardistus cibarius Newm., ranges right across to New South Wales; its larvae are found in the stems of grass-trees and ‘black-boys’ (Xanthorrhoea) and are eaten both by aborigines and white people.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 8 Starve the bardies!, a popular W.A. ejaculation, synonymous with ‘Stone the crows!’
a1951 X. Herbert in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories 299 Kaijek paused to look among the broken roots for bardies.
1959 A. Upfield Bony & Black Virgin xvii. 150 The bardee grubs came up from tree-trunks and..tree-roots to split their skins and emerge as great winged moths the size of a man's hand.
1963 J. Fountain in ‘B. James’ Austral. Short Stories 270 Fisher..sneaking round the corner..with a jar of bardi grubs under his arm.
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bardyadj.
/ˈbɑːdi/, U.S. /ˈbɑrdi/, Scottish English /ˈbardɪ/ Scottish.
Bold-faced, defiant; audacious, pert.
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1788 R. Galloway Poems 202 Shun the pert and bardy dame, Whose words run swiftly, void of sense.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 493 Hauding up the..chin o' him in a maist bardy and impertinent manner.
Derivatives
ˈbardily adv.
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1788 R. Galloway Poems 64 They, bardily, and hardily, Fac'd home or foreign foe.
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ˈbardiness n.
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